THE WEEK OF 24-30 OCTOBER 2011 IS GLOBAL OPEN ACCESS WEEK October 26, 2011
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The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) aims to apply scientific thinking in the service of society. One of these “Service to Society” projects is the creation of an open access database of prestigious academic South African journals. So far there are 20 titles on the database including close to 3 000 articles. The SciELO SA (Scientific Electronic Library Online) offers increased visibility, accessibility and indexability to the articles in these journals. The screen shot below from Google Analytics demonstrates the usage of the SciELO SA site during the last month:
The SciELO SA open access database project falls under the Scholarly Publishing Programme of ASSAf. The programme is funded by the Department of Science & Technology; and endorsed by the Department of Higher Education and Training.
Susan Veldsman, the Director of Scholarly Publishing at ASSAf was invited to speak on Open Access at the Open Access Week events held at the University of the Free State (24 October), the University of South Africa (25 October) and the University of Pretoria (27 October).
Susan Veldsman
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